NISHA'S WAR

Malaya 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold Northern coast.

When Amma falls gravely ill, Nisha is left to face her formidable grandmother alone. Grandmother's rules are countless, and her Anglo-Indian granddaughter is even forbidden from climbing the old weeping tree.

But when a ghostly child beckons Nisha to sit under its boughs, and promises her Amma's life in return for three lost treasures, its pull proves irresisitable ...

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